What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

whew! completed 4 challenges, painted a bit, and took a workshop on writing/ illustrating a novel. 

It  required all my creativity!   

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Let's start with the Project Quilting piece. The prompt was "hourglass" and we had one week to design, make and finish it. Here is my finished project

It will hang in my studio, reminding me of the speed of time (tempus Fugit ) that artists are happy when they are creating

I started with cutting two triangles of peltex stiff stabilizer, covering them with backing brought to the front

choosing which of my ...

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quickly while I can download a photo, this is my creative week

Using the Fig Tree pattern "Twirl" 

 

that is a mini size  quilt, I pulled my bag of little fall scraps, cut out all pieces, and then  the making of blocks is fairly fast, unless you get an angle wrong and have to unstitch and restitch! 

which happened !

It was fun to use the pattern and just sew without much decision making. the stems are black fabrics from my scrap bin, the tiniest scrap adds color and line to a block! (RSC)

I finished a pair of  hand knitted ...

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My creative week was all about creating a special travel wardrobe for a young woman crossing the Atlantic for her first trip abroad.... I'll share some of her new sundresses. She brought the latest in casual wear, bell bottom jeans, and a halter top, and of course a bikini for the south of France!

but first some mood music... I listened to this video this week while at the computer for a bit

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHE4UTFDlL0&t=4015s

was struck with the sweet young thing on the right, so I attempted to paint her...


using ...

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